Filed to story: The Alphas Contract Novel by Taylor West
“Which could only be done by the help of a strong Witch because I already had my Lycan. Think about it, Blair. Cooper has the ability to take people’s Wolves and Lycans away He has been able to give Wolves something to completely hide their scent. Samara was able to conceal her identity.”
‘Tread carefully.’ Nyx warns.
‘I am.’
“I never saw any Witches in the prison. At least I don’t think so. I wouldn’t be able to tell even if there were.” She shrugs her shoulders at me. “But there were women, ‘nurses’ Cooper called them. They weren’t. They would bring food, water change the drip bags and escort you to the showers. They never spoke and they always looked as if they were in some kind of trance. On autopilot.”
“Wolves and Lycans?”
“I don’t know. I can’t tell anymore. They could be like me for all I know. People he has punished.”
She was cooperating a little too well. She could be telling the truth or she could be buying time. What if Cooper had given her something as well so that she could mask her identity?
‘Damien.’ I link him. I knew he wasn’t far away. ‘Come and take her to the dungeons and bring me Samara.’
Damien appears and doesn’t say anything. He unbinds Blair from the chair but quickly ties her hands back together.
“Where are we going? Where are you taking me?” She demands
“For a walk.”
“Are you going to kill me?”
“I guess you will find out.” He winks at me as he forces her from the office.
I blow out my cheeks when I’m alone. It doesn’t get easier. The desire to kill her on the spot is so tempting. To cut her open and watch her intestines fall out is a picture I can’t get out of my head.
‘Well?’ I mutter to Nyx while we wait.
‘I am as unsure as you are. She is sharing, but it could be intentional. We should have kept Brax here.’
‘Brax has probably gone to see Maddie.’
“Please don’t…please…I’ve done nothing wrong.” Samara’s voice scratches at my ear drums as Damien tells her to be quiet.
“Just move.” Damien snaps.
“I’ve done nothing. Why does know one believe me? I told Neah what I know. This is cruel.”
He pushes the office door open and her mouth closes the moment she sees me. Her hands are bound just like Blair’s, though she looked a little rougher, maybe she had been tossed around a bit.
He tries to put her in the chair but she fights back against him. Damien laughs, pressing both hands on her shoulders and forcing her down. One by one, he binds her wrists to the chair as she growls at him. Her scent was definitely making a comeback and still, there is no connection to her.
Her grey eyes lock on mine. “Why are you doing this? We haven’t done anything.”
“No?”
“We came here to tell you about Cooper so why are you treating us like this?”
Was she unaware that we could scent her? She had to be or she wouldn’t keep up this act.
Damien rolls his eyes at her.
“What did you hope to achieve by telling me about him?”
“That you would do something about him. He can’t be allowed to get away with it. We don’t deserve this. We don’t deserve to lose our Lycans!”
Nyx laughs, ‘She really has no clue we can scent her, does she!’
‘Maybe not, but if we can scent her, there is a good chance she can shift.’ I reply. ‘Those ropes won’t keep her in that chair.’
“Blair showed you where our pack was?”
“Yes. She told me you are her half sister. Lcouldn’t believe my luck that you are the Alpha. I’ve been trying to find ways to bring Cooper down for years.”
“It does sound like you are lucky.” The intensity of my need to kill was growing by the second.
“You were hidden for so long.” She mutters, avoiding eye contact.
“I wasn’t hiding.”
“I didn’t mean it like that.” She shakes her head, trying to get the blonde strand to move off of her face. “I mean you were hidden away for so long and then this happened to me and then I had no way of finding you, not until Blair.”
“And it just so happened that Blair is my half sister.” Hearing myself call Blair my half sister out loud made my insides crawl
“Right! Pure luck.” She smiles
“Not a setup at all.”
I watch the colour drain from her skin. “I don’t know what you are talking about. How can it be a setup? Why would I give up losing my Lycan?”
‘She keeps playing the same tune.’ Nyx growls
Damien watches me from behind Samara. Maybe he knew I was seconds away from ripping outher we heart. But maybe, just mound could use her to lure out Cooper.
Abraxas
Madison is asleep when I get to the hospital. She had been in and out of sleep for the last couple of days, well, mostly asleep. Klaus insisted she just needed longer to heal and it was her body’s way of making it happen. It just feels unnatural, having to wait this long for someone to heal.
The others had it handled with Blair and Samara, if they needed me, they would know where to find me.
I sit by Madison’s head. Her face is scrunched up like she is in some sort of pain. Her knees are tucked up to her chest and she lets out tiny whimpers as her fingers twitch at the pillows. She wasn’t in pain though, every time she slept, she relived what happened.
I had managed to get bits of information in the short slots of time she was awake. Cooper had taken her. He had guided her towards the edge of the pack forest. Then pinned her down and thankfully she put up a fight. She might not have done so a few months ago.
He still managed to inject her with something. She had told me her body became heavy and felt like she was losing control. He took her to a building and beat her until she was black and blue. Those bruises, still evident on her body. She didn’t remember everything. She said it was fuzzy but he did tell her it was all because he saw her with me. He told her that she was broken. That a Lycan shouldn’t be with a Hunter and that he was going to fix her. That she was being punished for her actions.
He had chosen her, not me and that makes me think he’s far weaker than he makes out.
He wasn’t wrong about our kind being together, but to do this to her, it was disgusting. I shake my head, I was already planning to skin him alive. Slowly and with a very blunt tool.
Klaus comes into the room with a new IV bag and I push all the dark thoughts from my head. There was plenty of time to daydream.
“Still asleep?” He asks. There was definitely no way he would make it as a Hunter.
I gesture to her, because it was pretty obvious.
“It’s a good sign. It means her brain is giving her body the best chance He changes over the bag of fluids.
“She just needs time.” Conds.
“She will never be the same, will she.” I state
“Are you mad at her?”
I shake my head. I couldn’t be mad at her. Though this should never have happened.
Madison moans and stretches out.
Her chestnut eyes peek out from under her lids, until everything falls. into focus, She stares at me, her chestnut eyes full of sadness and pain. Her fingers move to her face, just like they did everytime she woke. Feeling for the stitches and making sure it wasn’t just a dream.
She winces as she touches them and her eyes become watery. “I made it?”
“Yes.” She asked the same thing each time she woke too. Looking for confirmation she was safe. It had become her little routine.
Reaching for my hand, her fingers curl tightly around mine and she tugs me towards the bed, just like yesterday.
“I will leave you to it.” Klaus takes the empty bag with him as I settle on the bed next to Madison.
She buries herself into my chest, snuggling in as far as she could. Within minutes she is asleep again. Her chest rises and falls against mine in a continuous rhythm. Her lips part as her body relaxes, but her fingers remain in place, clinging to me and preventing me from leaving.
I sniff her hair, hoping for some sign of her jasmine scent but there is still nothing. She smells just like any other Human.
I stay for a few hours, just watching her breathe. Every now and again she would do like a double breath and a tear would leak from her right eye. It was always her right. I wiped away each and every one as I tried to figure out what I wanted to do. I had unexpectedly become a Lycan’s safe person. If my parents were alive, they would be roasting me.
Dane knocks on the door and Madison stirs a little but doesn’t wake. “How is she doing?”
“Her soul has more cracks than yesterday,” I mutter. “She already had some issues that she was working through.”
“You told me that if they connect, it will tear her apart. Is that close to happening?”
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